Eroteme presents : Ashley Paul's 'Ray' / (Canadian Sound Artist) Anne-F Jacques / (UK Composer) Laurie Tompkins.
Fri 22 Apr 2022 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM BST
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, M1 5BZ
Description
Eroteme’s April show brings us the singularly intimate songcraft of ‘Ray’ : Ashley Paul’s new trio, alongside bass clarinetist Yoni Silver and bassist Otto Willberg. Also joining us is Canadian sound artist Anne-F Jacques, bringing her various erratic DIY contraptions and sounding objects, alongside the Unhinged madness of UK composer Laurie Tompkins.
7:30 - 10PM / £12 Adv / £14 Entry
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“It is as if Ashley Paul’s spaciously experimental, playfully contrasting aesthetics have been eerily anticipating our strange times, finally locking into the larger zeitgeist with her spellbinding new album, Ray.” - The Quietus
Ashley Paul is an American multi-instrumentalist/ composer based in London. Her intuitive process integrates free form song structures with a focused approach to sound. Using a complexity of instruments including saxophone, clarinet, voice, prepared guitar and percussion she creates a delicate palette, uniquely her own.
During the summer of 2020 Ashley began composing for her new trio RAY featuring Yoni Silver and Otto Willberg. Ashley released the album ‘Ray’ on Slip in late 2020. It is a reflection of the intense emotional year, filled with melody, humor, dissonance and longing. New cassette ‘Another Sand’ will be released on Wagtail, November 2021. Performing live, the trio explores the fringes of free improvisation and song form, where melodies are dissected and slowly pieced together, alluding to shape but only occasionally binding together.
RAY :
Ashley Paul :: alto saxophone, voice, composition
Yoni Silver :: bass clarinet, alto saxophone
Otto Willberg :: double bass, voice
Ashley has performed or collaborated with Nik Void, Thurston Moore, Rashad Becker, Loren Connors, Gavin Bryars, Aki Onda, Lucy Railton, Simon Fisher Turner, Rhys Chatham and Heatsick. She has been commissioned to compose work for Musarc Choir premiered at LCMF 2018, A quintet for Counterflows Festival 2017 and “The Pace of Time” premiered at Roundhouse (London) 2013. Ashley performed the World and US premieres of Phill Niblock’s Asheli, a piece composed specifically for her and Eli Keszler and performed live with Niblock. She performed the US premiere of Mauricio Kagel’s Der Schall at Merkin Concert Hall (NYC) and premiered Anthony Coleman’s quartet Damaged by Sunlight at Banlieues Bleues Festival (Paris). She received a residency at ISSUE Project Room in 2008 and a Fellowship Grant in composition from the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts, 2010. In 2020 Ashley was a finalist for The Arts Foundation ‘Futures Award’ in experimental music.
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Anne-F Jacques is a sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. She is interested in amplification, erratic devices and oblique interactions between materials with the construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems.
Jacques creates unique sound-making Objects from small motors, found objects and other discarded parts, and she utilizes contact mics and tiny amplification set-ups to produce really fascinating textures and unexpected rhythms.
Her particular focus is on low technology, trivial and unpolished sounds. She regularly realizes installations, performances and ephemeral interventions and gives workshops about domestic appliances hacking. She has worked amongst others with Tsonami Festival (Chile), Experimental Intermedia (New York), Ftarri (Tokyo), CTM (Berlin), Umbral (Mexico), Centrale for Contemporary Arts(Brussels), High Zero (Baltimore) and MEM (Bilbao).
In addition to her sound work, Jacques also ran Crustacés Tapes, a sound art distribution project where people could send postcards or gifts in exchange for the different cassettes that were available. More recently, she has moved on to starting Presses Précaires, a DIY label focused on releasing “obscure and luminous sounds on magnetic tape.”
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Laurie Tompkins is a UK composer, performer and co-founder and co-director of the Slip label.
From scores for samples, instruments and voices he creates a grabbable music that dreams and confounds. Bodies, things, words, and sounds strain under duress, looping their way through scenes of grubby presence, not-quite riff, moldy echo, and swollen bombast.
His spring 2022 discs for Entr’acte, 33-33 and Hyperdelia are a thick, unruly soup of keys and computer with pianist Eliza McCarthy; a desperate suite of consoling, tanked songs with takes from Jess Hickie-Kallenbach, Teresa Winter, Gwilly Edmondez and videos by Joel Wycherley; and some dilated rotten soul with Eliza and Ashley Paul.
Laurie helms Slip, which has released music by Yeah You, Mica Levi, Julia Reidy, Bass Clef, Object Collection, Mentos Gulgendo, Chaines & Competition. Old releases of his own include ‘Ample Profanity’ (2018), with cellist Oliver Coates; ‘Heat, War, Sweat, Law’ (2016); and ‘Exorcise’ (2021), as Yes Indeed with bassist Otto Willberg, justly hailed as “proper, mad scones” (Boomkat).
Performances: Café Oto, Aldeburgh Music, Spike Island, Harp Art Lab (Harplinge) and National Sawdust (New York). Commissions: House of Bedlam, Daylight Editions, LSO Soundhub Scheme, ddmmyy and 840 series. Radio: specials for NTS and Resonance FM and a session with Adam Bohman recorded at Maida Vale studios, broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Location
International Anthony Burgess Foundation, M1 5BZ